1 named line in this family, ECO
E14.
Under each line you get its moves and the sentences it adds that
this page has not already printed. A line's own page carries up to its
first 4 per-move notes in full.
Black's queenside bishop takes the long diagonal. ...b6 and ...Bb7 control e4 from the flank: a sound, flexible sister of the Nimzo where piece pressure replaces pawn contact.
1. d4Stakes a claim in the centre, controlling e5, and frees the bishop and queen.
1... Nf6Develops the knight to f6, eyeing d5 and e4.
2. c4Fights for d5 from the flank - contesting the centre without committing a centre pawn.
2... e6Supports the centre, adding control of d5.
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